Breast cancer screening: a summary of the evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force

LL Humphrey, M Helfand, BKS Chan… - Annals of internal …, 2002 - acpjournals.org
Purpose: To synthesize new data on breast cancer screening for the US Preventive Services
Task Force. Data Sources: MEDLINE; the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry; and …

Screening for breast cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement

US Preventive Services Task Force* - Annals of internal medicine, 2009 - acpjournals.org
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
supplement. Reader Survey: Will the USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations …

Systematic reviews as a 'lens of evidence': determinants of benefits and harms of breast cancer screening

O Mandrik, N Zielonke, F Meheus… - … journal of cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This systematic review, stimulated by inconsistency in secondary evidence, reports the
benefits and harms of breast cancer (BC) screening and their determinants according to …

Mammography service screening and mortality in breast cancer patients: 20-year follow-up before and after introduction of screening

L Tabar, MF Yen, B Vitak, HHT Chen, RA Smith… - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Background The long term effect of mammographic service screening is not well
established. We aimed to assess the long-term effect of mammographic screening on death …

Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40–74 years

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Cmaj, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
Methods The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care is an independent panel of
clinicians and methodologists with expertise in prevention, primary care, literature synthesis …

Factors contributing to mammography failure in women aged 40–49 years

DSM Buist, PL Porter, C Lehman… - Journal of the …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background: Younger women (40–49 years) have lower mammographic sensitivity
(ie, greater proportion of cancers detected after a negative mammogram) than older women …

[BOOK][B] Population health: concepts and methods

TK Young - 2004 - books.google.com
Population health encompasses traditional public health and preventive medicine but
emphasizes the full range of health determinants affecting the entire population rather than …

Evaluation of abnormal mammography results and palpable breast abnormalities

K Kerlikowske, R Smith-Bindman… - Annals of internal …, 2003 - acpjournals.org
Background: Because approximately 1 in 10 women with a breast lump or abnormal
mammography result will have breast cancer, a series of decisions must be taken by a …

Screening mammography for women 40 to 49 years of age: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians

A Qaseem, V Snow, K Sherif, M Aronson… - Annals of internal …, 2007 - acpjournals.org
Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death for women in their 40s in the
United States. Individualized risk assessment plays an important role when making …

Breast cancer mortality after screening mammography in British Columbia women

A Coldman, N Phillips, L Warren… - International journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Mammographic screening is a proven method for the early detection of breast cancer. The
authors analyzed the impact of service mammographic screening on breast cancer mortality …